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Hindi Is Sweet, Tamil Is Not

Topic started by Neel D (@ 24.99.73.50) on Thu Jul 31 08:28:30 EDT 2003.
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Hindi is sweet, Tamil is not - Says Karthik Raja

In an interview aired Tuesday (July 28) on Singapore's Oli Tamil Radio, to a question Karthik Raja replied that he likes composing for Hindi movies because the language is so sweet and makes his composition sound sweet. He went on to say that he thinks that that sweetness is missing in Tamil.

When the interviewers (two women) asked him about the current generation of singers he said that after SPB and Hariharan there has been no new male singer who is versatile. He added that the new male singers are all so monotonous.

The two women interviewers spoke in pure Tamil and only in Tamil. Karthik Raja's vocabulary was about 70% English and 30% Tamil. (At the end of the interview, the interviewers thanked him for his efforts to speak in Tamil.)

The interviewers asked who were the singers in his latest album, Karthik replied "Vijay Parakash, from Mumbai". The interviewers repied, "yeah, north indian singers' voices do have a vaseegaram".

I was so impressed at the maturity, diplomacy and the pride in heritage of the interviewers (the two Singaporean women).

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• From: OISG (@ 217.165.96.192) on: Sat Aug 2 00:58:50 EDT 2003
  
  Grrrrr...
  
  Thoongum puliyei idarivittargaL!
  
  So Hindi is sweet...Since when?Since the day when an wooden,ageing Hindi actor with huge bags under the eyes turns out to be your ONLY patron.Comrades-in-distress!hmm!
  
  Immature posters,frustrated inept musicians -Kya jodi hai!
  
  Tamil is difficult to master-so is Yoga,so is Kung-fu ,Tai-chi,Wu-shu ,Vipasana,TM,Linux,Wealth Tax Act,FEMA Act,IFRS -they require the learner/practioner to have a certain discipline and passion.God save men who have neither!
  
  
• From: tfmfan (@ 128.8.22.44) on: Sat Aug 2 01:09:01 EDT 2003
  
  Guys,
  
  Since the controversy abt musicians working in night has cropped up, I read in a recent posting that even VS works in the night these days. Seems like thats the trend in TFM!!!.
  
  
• From: Mumbai Ramki (@ 203.193.152.200) on: Sat Aug 2 01:50:18 EDT 2003
  
  Even Bharathiyaar said that Telugu is the sweetest language for the ears ,but the sam ebharathi has said that Tamil is the bets langauge he has seen !!!
  
  
• From: Raj (@ 206.97.63.112) on: Sat Aug 2 02:05:34 EDT 2003
  
  Mumbai Ramki: Bharathi also said that carnatic vocalists should sing in Tamil and not in languages they did not know and the audience did not know. Kalki said the samething. This language 'problem' has been in Carnatic music for a long time. Only now you see Tamil compositions opening the concert. Only now you see CDs of compositions by Oothukkadu Venkatasubbiar,Gopalakrishna Bharathi, Bharathiyar,Andal, Thevaram moovar et al. You could not have found that 30 or 40 years back. There is change. TFM has not caught up.
  
  
• From: Mumbai Ramki (@ 203.193.152.200) on: Sat Aug 2 02:25:10 EDT 2003
  
  Infact ,Kalki did not like Bharathi's style of writing as it was too difficult for a ordinary man to understand !!
  Anywya ,Raj nice u have given !!
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.31) on: Sat Aug 2 03:29:26 EDT 2003
  
  Karthick Raja....i wish u many Flops in the coming future .. (my saabam coz u look down at tamil language)
  heehheehh
  
  - i really hate a person who looks down at tamil!!
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.233.105) on: Sat Aug 2 03:29:48 EDT 2003
  
  hey OISG dare u comment on hindi... that's the problems with u tamils u know... u wanna appreciate tamil then do it but not by degrading some other language... shall i talk abt. tamil actors???/ underwear-showing,moustached like mad, and football-bellied heroines....
  
  
• From: Nattamai (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sat Aug 2 04:10:22 EDT 2003
  
  MADDY:
  
  ARR unga oor aazhnu ninachutiya...
  
  If you are eager to adopt him, please contact at his chennai address (we already asked him to pack up)
  
  ur ruling wunt affect the man who lives in hearts of ppl. outside TN......
  
  come on, man. hearts??? please take it easy :))
  
  ur stupid ruling wunt carry weight outside TN just like IR's music...
  
  or can we say the music of baba, parasuram, udaya which didn't top the music charts of Billboard, MTV, VH1.
  
  underwear-showing,moustached like mad, and football-bellied heroines....
  
  Surely, you have watched lot of Karnataka's Star Ravichandran's movies...
  
  hehehe
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.218.9) on: Sat Aug 2 07:34:56 EDT 2003
  
  no way i was referring to ur IR's fav. hereoes Rajkiran, vijaykanth, mansoor-ali-khan(he was hero in 1 movie)
  it will be my privilige to accept ARR at my place.... anyway he is already a member of my family.... and his albums outside TN:
  1.bombay- all time record in hindi
  2.saathiya- hit album in HFM after Dil Chahta hain
  3.Bombay dreams- has already earned millions of pounds in london....
  also ur IR,YSR have not yet broken ARR's record in TFM- Kadhalan(10 lakh units)
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 203.199.209.101) on: Sat Aug 2 07:55:02 EDT 2003
  
  >>>>> Infact ,Kalki did not like Bharathi's style of writing as it was too difficult for a ordinary man to understand !! >>>>>
  
  Mu.Ra neenga thuglak vaasaga-raa ;-)
  
  
• From: Mumbai Ramki (@ 203.193.152.200) on: Sat Aug 2 07:59:08 EDT 2003
  
  Kupps ,of course Yes ..I should have mentioned the source !!!!
  
  
  
• From: thamilan (@ 65.95.164.129) on: Sat Aug 2 08:41:11 EDT 2003
  
  Neel D, your mom's pus*y is sweet but she is not :)
  
  
• From: raj (@ 203.164.37.4) on: Sat Aug 2 11:42:21 EDT 2003
  
  eva evanuku hindi pudikumo avanga elam HFM PAge onu start pani hindi pathi praise panunga... get out of tfm.. na pesuren da hindi..
  KIYA KARTHA HEY
  NAYA JATHA HEY
  HUTHA HEY
  
  
• From: Return of the king (@ 216.127.82.98) on: Sat Aug 2 12:29:29 EDT 2003
  
  Anyone smelt MADDY's ar*se before? Does he wash them or is he like a chinese and use toilet paper. Sure stinks!
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.131.142) on: Sat Aug 2 13:21:38 EDT 2003
  
  ithu nichaymai tamizhargal meedhu vidukapatirukkum savaal, 4000 - 5000 aandugal pazhamayulla oru mozhiyai 200-300 andugale sarithram ulla oru mozhiyodu oppitathae mudhal thavaru. melum hindi tamiZHaivida inimayana mozhi endru koori setrai vari iraithullar thiruvaalar.
  sendra aandu veliyana isaignanyin "gnana ganga" matrum "venba nanmaalaI"yai vasithu vittu kooratum tamizh inimayatratha endru.
  
  utharanathirkku oru venbavai ingu padaikiren:
  
  NELLUK URUNEERIL NEENDA SIRUPUL NAAN
  PULLENDRAL POLLATHO? PULLUM PAYIRANDRO?
  NELLUNDU MEENTHATHAMIZH PULLUNNA KOODATHO?
  NELLUKUM PULLINGU NAER!
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.131.142) on: Sat Aug 2 13:31:29 EDT 2003
  
  "gnana ganga" vil vadavoorar potri paadalil ennai mayakki vittar Isaignai, neengalum suvayungalen:
  
  ADIKODUTHU VILAYAADI - AN
  BADI KODUTHU UNAIKKOODI - ADI
  MUDI PADHITHU AROOLCHOODI - TAMIZH
  ADIEDUKKA MUDIYITTAN
  ADI ILLAAN MUDIVILLAAN
  ADIYARULAM KUDIKONDAAN
  PIDIYILLAAN - PIDIKKA ORU
  VADIVILLAAN - VADIVODUNEE
  PADITHATHAMIZH - ADIKANDAAN
  MUDIKONDAAN - VADITHU
  SUVADITHANTHAAN - PIDITHAUN
  PIDIVANTHAAN - ADITHANTHAAN -
  ADIYENDRU ADIYARULAM
  KUDIKONDA VALLALNIN
  NADI PUGAZHNTHU - VADITHAMOZHI
  PADIKAATHA KODIYAVAN
  
  PIDPATHARKKU UNPOLA
  MUDIYAATHA MUDAVAN NAAN
  
  KODIYAPIRA PODIYANIN
  NADIYUMPON - NADIYENDRAE
  MUDIPATHITHAE - ADIPANITHAEN
  THADITHAVINAI - PODIPPODIEN
  DRITHUNPADHAM - PIDIKKA ARULVAYAE!
  
  
• From: mahabs (@ 61.11.82.192) on: Sun Aug 3 06:34:38 EDT 2003
  
  if this is true, then kr is really an idiot.
  
  mahabs
  
  
• From: raj (@ 203.164.47.39) on: Sun Aug 3 09:08:30 EDT 2003
  
  yarathu?? poniyin selvana?? nee ingaya iruka.. ada pavi..
  
  
• From: Karthik oliga (@ 219.95.189.96) on: Sun Aug 3 10:45:14 EDT 2003
  
  dei....karthik rajave avan appa pulu valiya vanthavan thane. Avan appa ilayaraja mattum yenna vellekarana......cunni paye karthik raja.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 67.85.193.232) on: Sun Aug 3 12:15:57 EDT 2003
  
  I would not comment on the Interview, till i hear it personally.
  Coming back to the Topic. Hindi is sweet and Tamil is not
  may be it is hard to learn, understand and digest.. I will give a corollary to Carnatic Music.. Thyagaraja's songs were like grapes, you can just sing and enjoy the taste, Shyama sashtri's songs were like peeling a banana, though some strain has to be taken, still enjoy the pleasure after a little effort, but Dhikshitar kritis were like break open a coconut and enjoying the sweetness. It is sweet in different ways.
  So people dont come up with titles of discussion like this.. and b4 we do that let us analyze the history, tamil is one of the few ancient languages in its purest form, no derivates added to it. Not like Hindi which was derived from Sanskrit.. ( i am not against Hindi ) just giving facts.
  So instead of arguing, just enjoy the sweetness in its own way and roots.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 67.85.193.232) on: Sun Aug 3 12:16:09 EDT 2003
  
  I would not comment on the Interview, till i hear it personally.
  Coming back to the Topic. Hindi is sweet and Tamil is not
  may be it is hard to learn, understand and digest.. I will give a corollary to Carnatic Music.. Thyagaraja's songs were like grapes, you can just sing and enjoy the taste, Shyama sashtri's songs were like peeling a banana, though some strain has to be taken, still enjoy the pleasure after a little effort, but Dhikshitar kritis were like break open a coconut and enjoying the sweetness. It is sweet in different ways.
  So people dont come up with titles of discussion like this.. and b4 we do that let us analyze the history, tamil is one of the few ancient languages in its purest form, no derivates added to it. Not like Hindi which was derived from Sanskrit.. ( i am not against Hindi ) just giving facts.
  So instead of arguing, just enjoy the sweetness in its own way and roots.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 67.85.193.232) on: Sun Aug 3 12:16:46 EDT 2003
  
  Sorry for the double post
  
  
• From: Ismail (@ 65.161.65.104) on: Sun Aug 3 12:30:28 EDT 2003
  
  Btw, where is Maddy the pun*dda mave??
  
  
• From: T (@ 24.59.122.70) on: Sun Aug 3 20:25:37 EDT 2003
  
  Why does IR fans mouth profanities like this so openly!
  
  there cheap rowdy village behavior perfectly goes along with the stale rustic dandanakka "aiyya" "raaasa" "thambi" kind of uncouth IR songs!
  
  
• From: T (@ 24.59.122.70) on: Sun Aug 3 20:27:45 EDT 2003
  
  YSR has overthrown his brother who always took refuge behind IR's shadow!
  
  YSR ROCKKKKKKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
  DUMP IR AND KR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  

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